The Tournament Organizers Usergroup has decided to launch a contest: “Tournament Organizer of the Year – 2011”. We got the inspiration for the format from the “Oscars” (thanks to DJ Teflon and sonicsteve), the yearly awards for the movie industry.

Our awards are “Primes” in honor of Optimus Prime, the Godfather of the CC Tournament World (thanks to barterer2002 for the idea).

We have put together a variety of categories for which the winning tournaments and their organizer will be awarded Golden, Silver and Bronze Primes, as well as two separate contests for the TO of the Year and the TO Career Awards (see below).

Everybody on CC is free to participate, however, you cannot nominate your own tournament(s) and every nomination needs to be accompanied by a valid reason for the nomination to be eligible for entry in the contest.

The contest for the 17 categories named below will done in public, in this thread. Anybody can nominate a tournament providing a valid reason why the tournament should win in the particular category, with one exception: You cannot nominate your own tournament. The same tournament can be nominated for various categories. Voting for each tournament is public. The three winning entries for very category will go through a voting process within the TO Forum. The TO Usergroup Members will vote to see which tournament will receive the Golden, Silver and Bronze “Prime Awards”. This would be a fictional award, not a medal. All the “Golden Prime” winners will automatically be nominees for TO of the Year (see below).

Best Small Tournament

Best Mid-Sized Tournament

Best Large Tournament

Best Huge Tournament

Best Terminator Tournament

Best Assassin Tournament

Best 1 v 1 Tournament

Best Doubles Tournament

Best Triples Tournament

Best Quadruples Tournament

Best Large-Team Tournament

Best International Tournament

Best Speed Tournament

Best Mixed Tournament

Best Sports League Tournament

Best Tournament Series

Most Creative/Innovative Tournament

Notes:

Although there are many different ways to determine "tournament size", we decided to use the following method: Small, mid-sized, large and huge tournaments will be classified based on the number of entries (teams or players) times the number of games the winner or winning team have played. This would result in a score, which determines the size of the tournament. The tournament "scores scale" is as follows:

Up to 500 = Small

501 to 1500 = Medium

1500 up to 4000 = Big

More than 4000 = Huge

A tournament series is defined as: A series of at least 5 completed tournaments that either follow a similar design and set-up, or, lead to a common goal, such as a Grand Finale or a championship. The titles of the tournaments should indicate that they are part of a series. For this contest at least one tournament of the series must have started and been completed in 2011. [Edited Jan. 11]

Tournaments must have been successfully started and completed in 2011, with two exceptions:

Tournaments that started before 2011 and were successfully completed after March 31st, 2011.

Tournaments that have entered the finals and/or the final round before the end of the year and are completed no later than January 31st, 2012.

This TO will be decided by the TO Group, in our forum. The “Golden Prime” winners are automatically nominated, others can be nominated in the forum by a TO Group member, with a valid reason. You cannot nominate yourself.After that the TO Group decides a winner by using a scoring system (similar to what DJ Teflon used for the latest tournament contest). The three winners will receive the Golden, Silver and Bronze “Prime Awards” The Golden Prime Award winner will receive a General Achievement Medal. TO members will post their scores for the following 18 categories to decide the winners:

Amount of tournaments

Creativity in tournaments

Diversity in tournaments

Presentation of tournaments

Organization of tournaments

Updating tournaments

Amount of abandoned tournaments

Amount of rescued tournaments

Amount of co-hosted tournaments

Helping out new TOs with their tournaments

Providing answers/solutions to questions/problems of fellow TOs

Providing suggestions to improve tournaments

Providing General Achievement Medals in tournaments

Attracting new players to tournaments

Retaining happy players in their tournaments

Problem solving in their tournaments

Communicating in their tournaments

Positive influence on the tournament community

The following scoring system will be used to determine the performance of TOs with regards to the various categories:

This is another category decided by TO Group members. Simply put it will be an award for the TO that had the most positive influence on the tournament world of CC over the years that CC exists. Candidates can only be nominated by TO Group members with a variety of valid reasons. The winner will be voted for by TO Group members as well. The winner will receive a General Contribution Medal.